The Roaring Season

Steve Holmes wrote:Anyone have info on this Escort?

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Lance Newton. Its a turboed 3.3L Holden powering it

The no 1 car is the typhoon , ended up in dave morrisons hands for a number of years, dave ran a 2 litre ford engine in it, I remember tow starting it with a tractor across a paddock at maungati, we used to race around the tarseal loop around his house in it.it is now in the hands of steve donaldson in chch.

Steve Holmes wrote:Does anyone know what happened to either of these Tom Donovan sports cars?

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The bottom pic is the typhoon, which dave morrison bought off tom, and had it for a number of years, it ran a twincam in it, then dave fitted a 2litre ohc ford engine in it, I remember tw starting it behind a tractor across a paddock at daves maungati farm.we used to drive it around daves oval asphalt drive way that went around his house.steve donaldson from chch now owns it, amongst his collection.i dont think it has been on track for a few years, but when I last caught up with steve, it is all there ready to run.

Thanks Paul, great info!

seaqnmac27 wrote:Lance Newton. Its a turboed 3.3L Holden powering it

Brilliant, thanks Sean. Any other known history on this car? These MkI Escorts seem to have done the rounds with various owners.

Robin Tanner again in the Firebird.

A couple shots of Paul Fahey in the RS2600 Group 2 Capri during its first season in NZ.

Anyone know anything about this Cortina?

Robert Bartley had one in the 72-73 season.

Steve Holmes wrote:Anyone know anything about this Cortina?

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By hovering over the photo it says Fat Cortina Puke 79 In April 80 there was a V8 Cortina racing at Bay Park driven by Mike McNally and the Clearview Motors Mini Kevin Masterson

Could be this race at the April 1, 1979 meeting.



Addis won the first race from Huxford with the positions reversed in the second. Fred Bailey was third in both races driving the Escort RS2000

Great stuff guys, thank you.

Formula Ford action now. These are awesome! Can anyone name names?

Posts 114 to 117 are from the March 7, 1976 meeting at Pukekohe.

Great stuff, thanks Milan.